[mythtv-users] Hard Disk Prices -- What Happened?

[Calvin Dodge]

Exactly so.

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 15:30 -0400, James Hall wrote:
> >> Not so much cashing in as a lot of production capacity is down, so
> >> there's less of a supply but demand is unaffected, driving the prices
> >> up. It's econ 101 really.
> >
> > Yes.  That's called "cashing in".  Those $140 hard drives are no more
> > expensive to manufacture, stock, distribute and finally sell than they
> > were a month ago at $80.  The only thing that has changed is supply has
> > been restricted, giving everybody in the supply chain an opportunity to
> > increase their prices and make more money at the same cost of goods, and
> > handling.
> >
> > It may be econ 101 but that doesn't make it any less cashing in on the
> > tragedy of a natural disaster.
> >
>
> Perhaps they should just sell out at the normal prices, and have no
> hard drives for a while.
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